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Editors Video: Facts - What are Cancer Stem Cells? 3/8/2009 9:20:00 PM

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Video about cancer stem cells by Dr. Mike Magee of Health Politics.

Stem cells have these properties, they can: self-renew, multiply, and proliferate extensively. We normally think about stem cells as being good and having healing properties.

But if those properties are subverted by the body, they may become "evil" stem cells and may cause cancer. (There is some dispute at this...

Editors Breakthrough: Longevity Gene Discovered 2/3/2009 5:20:00 PM

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A German research group, with the Faculty of Medicine at the Christian-Albrechts-University in Kiel, discovered that the gene FOXO3A may have a positive effect on human life expectancy throughout the world.

Editors Surprise: Feet, Hand and Thigh Found in Baby's Brain 12/18/2008 3:10:00 PM

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Doctors were surprised when they found 2 feet, a thigh, and a hand in a baby's brain. They thought they were removing a tumor from a 3 day old baby's brain.

They were unsure if the limbs were from a stem cell gone wild or the remains of an identical twin.

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